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Child Errors actually covers the following: -Minors with no guardians to claim responsibility for them. So it happens with orphans, but only if they have nobody laying claim to them. Child Errors are useful because they are easily manipulated and nobody gives a poo poo what happens to them. -Students who owe the city a debt over the school fees. Now, you could always withdraw from the program...except anyone undergoing esper power development has plenty of trade secret drugs in them, not to mention knowledge of the processes used to awaken espers. It's mentioned once in the LNs that if a high level esper dies outside the city, the city can and will recover or destroy their remains. -But none of the above apply for higher level espers, they receive a research stipend that basically pays for their fees and living expenses as long as they cooperate with the city's research. Level 0s who flunk out, fail to pay their school fees or otherwise drop out of the system are hosed. As for WWIII, LN spoilers: The Catholic Church eventually works themselves into using magic to cause multiple countries to declare war on Academy City. The fighting was one sided, because Crowley stopped loving around and sent out hypersonic bombers to level entire armies within hours of the declaration. That's mostly the end of the "we're totally a research and development institution" image. veekie fucked around with this message at 10:16 on Aug 26, 2013 |
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One of the best things you could drop from a bomber: Accelerator
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Aug 26, 2013 11:40
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Just that they are an independent state in every aspect except on paper.
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Aug 26, 2013 16:54
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Wolf on Air posted:
Funny thing is, due to the nature of the building's defense, no amount of raw force is going to do anything to it unless it physically annihilates the city down to bedrock in the process.
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Wolf on Air posted:(All the Level 5s show up. Clusterfuck ensues.) All the known ones anyway. Boy what a thorough clusterfuck.
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I think maybe they tried to stuff too many characters in for the big fight. Accelerator was there more or less just to punt the whole space elevator into orbit. The Sisters showed up to do nothing more than plasma cannon the robot horde. Kanzaki Kaori took a shuttle into space so she could fight missiles with a katana and then de-orbit, which was really weird since as strong as she is she could definitely have been useful at the top. Might have been better served leaving them out for the core crew of the movie(Touma+Index, Misaka & Friends) to do more, unless they cut out a big chunk of the early part to fit in more action overall. I cracked up at Saten suggesting that she attack the explosive bolts with a baseball bat though.
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Sep 6, 2013 06:12
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I was hoping for more from them when reinforcements were mentioned, but the Sisters showed up too late
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Sep 7, 2013 05:30
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The difference largely comes from their relative positions socially though. Misaka always(justifiably) thought of herself as superior in some ways. She's much more powerful than most people she knows and idolized to boot, so she takes on the role of a protector to her friends. When it comes down to a fight, anyone she'd have trouble with would find little difficulty sweeping her friends aside. She's quite willing to intervene in the troubles of others, but never even considered needing help herself. When she found out about the dark side of the city, she quite understandably doesn't want to drag her friends into danger, and ruining their happy school life. Kongou meanwhile had her delusions of superiority popped early on. She's faced reality. veekie fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Sep 9, 2013 |
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Sep 9, 2013 20:48
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Paracelsus posted:More somewhat deflated than popped. This is still Kongou Mitsuko we're talking about, the girl wears a live python wrapped around her neck like it's no big thing. Well...maybe she deserves that much for having the gonads to wear a live python like a feather boa.
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ArchangeI posted:Yeah. But making Last Order upset makes Accelerator upset. And making him upset is never a good idea. Hence my comment that it would backfire even more spectacularly. The Liberal Arts City light novel has an excellent Kuroko/Misaka Action scene. She enormously improves their combat ability.
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Sep 15, 2013 00:50
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Tarezax posted:Tsuchimikado's sister got me thinking: I want to see representatives of Academy City's vocational schools in action. There is at least one combat maid in the LNs.
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So to fight 20,000 remote controlled robots, you use 10,000 Railgun clones and also Uiharu hijacks the entire city's security robot force.
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Sep 21, 2013 22:11
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Pity. I'd have liked to see Study's faces when 10,000 militarized espers wipe out their 20,000 mecha
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Sep 21, 2013 23:03
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In Academy City, law enforcement is subordinate to mad science, so no surprise at all there that they aren't allowed to act. You could get some interesting data from seeing how it turns out.
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It's not like STUDY knows why Academy City mainly cares about espers. Ultimately, even if their experiment shows result, it wouldn't change things, because what Crowley needs is esper power to change reality itself. He needs smart people only because they can build towards that. And besides, the Kiharas are way better at mad science.
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Stall_19 posted:You know poo poo is going down when Saten brings out the bat. I still wonder what the hell she thought she could do to the space elevator supports with a bat. At least here she might help guard Uiharu's back while Uiharu commands her robot legions.
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Sep 22, 2013 21:58
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Wolf on Air posted:Manga issue 63 is out but not yet translated. There will be some AMAZING punching.
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Oct 1, 2013 13:56
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Incidentally, the last episode would make a large number of great gifs.
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Oct 1, 2013 21:27
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I love how they just stared at each other after punching.
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They were only making two anyway, so using months wasn't so bad. Coming up with codenames for twenty thousand and one would be a bit harder though.
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That was amazing alright.
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It's a brilliant plan as long as you can throw him accurately then outrun the missile to catch him on the other end like a baby. This is the beginning of a wonderful partnership. veekie fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Nov 2, 2013 |
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Nate RFB posted:Chapter 68 You know the best part of that is I think the real reason Kuroko blocked the knife with her hand instead of teleporting was that she couldn't see poo poo because she just moved into a dark sewer from a well lit building. It wasn't superior tactics so much as "gently caress letting lack of lighting stop me".
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